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The trumpeter

Introduction

Besides his ballads, J Airlie Dix was a substantial composer of comic songs, some of which were interpolated into stage shows in the early years of the twentieth century. It was with this setting of stirring words by John Francis Barron that he achieved his most lasting success.

Recordings

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Details

Trumpeter, what are you sounding now? (Is it the call I’m seeking?) “You’ll know the call,” said the Trumpeter tall, “When my trumpet goes a-speakin’. I’m rousin’ ’em up; I’m wakin’ ’em up, The tents are astir in the valley, And there’s no more sleep with the sun’s first peep, For I’m soundin’ the old ‘Reveille!’”

Trumpeter, what are you sounding now? (Is it the call I’m seeking?) “Can’t mistake the call,” said the Trumpeter tall, “When my trumpet goes a-speakin’. I’m urgin’ ’em on, They’re scamperin’ on, There’s a drummin’ of hoofs like thunder. There’s a madd’nin’ shout as the sabres flash out, For I’m sounding the ‘Charge’ no wonder.”

Trumpeter, what are you sounding now? (Is it the call I’m seeking?) “Lucky for you if you hear it at all For my trumpet’s but faint in speakin’, I’m callin’ ’em home! Come home! Come home! Tread light o’er the dead in the valley, Who are lyin’ around face down to the ground, And they can’t hear me sound the ‘Rally’. But they’ll hear it again in a grand refrain, When Gabriel sounds the last ‘Rally’.”